March 31, 2020, marked the 145th anniversary since Shimadzu Corporation was founded. Here we share a short video highlighting the development of the Company based on founder Genzo Shimadzu Senior’s strong conviction that Japan should become a leader in science, his intention was to contribute to society through the dissemination of scientific knowledge.

Due to replacing our demo instruments with the newly launched AXIS Supra+ we now have two ex-demo AXIS Supra instruments for sale. The opportunity to purchase an AXIS Supra doesn’t come along very often – so you’ll have to be quick to secure this bargain.

During the recent ECASIA’19 we met up with Dr. Lidiya Kibis who is working at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Our interest was sparked when Dr. Kibis told us that her institute were generating data from a Kratos ES-300. Whilst we doubt that there are any working spectrometers older than the ES-300 at Boreskov Institute of Catalysis we’d welcome your stories to help us celebrate Kratos’ 50 years of XPS.

We recently completed applications training on the AXIS Supra at the EPSRC National Facility for X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Harwell, UK. We extremely pleased that we have a Kratos spectrometer at HarwellXPS that can be accessed by UK academics and researchers through EPSRC funding.